{"id":1346,"date":"2009-01-07T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T08:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2009-01-07T18:45:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T10:45:20","slug":"comiket-75-loot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2009\/01\/07\/comiket-75-loot\/","title":{"rendered":"Comiket 75 – Loot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Comiket<\/a>
\nUseless pieces of paper and plastic<\/p>\n

I’m finally back in Singapore. It’s really hot even in my air-conditioned room. Gah. But anyway, here’s my damage report for Comiket 75. I didn’t buy much. Really.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Basically I had only three things on my wishlist for Comiket: Heart Work<\/a>, Afterschool of the 5th Year<\/a> (5\u00e5\u00b9\u00b4\u00e7\u203a\u00ae\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e6\u201d\u00be\u00e8\u00aa\u00b2\u00e5\u00be\u0152), and T2 ART WORKS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, the three circles have their booths on different days, so I ended up queuing for one item a day, a rather relaxed and stress-free arrangement that meant that I did not have to do any overnight queuing<\/a> or prior planning.<\/p>\n

5\u00e5\u00b9\u00b4\u00e7\u203a\u00ae\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e6\u201d\u00be\u00e8\u00aa\u00b2\u00e5\u00be\u0152<\/h3>\n

Day 1 was Gonenme no Houkago<\/strong> (or as the circle translates it “Afterschool of the 5th Year”). It is a relatively obscure circle probably best known online for its drunken Haruhi<\/a> illustration. I wrote a post on 5\u00e5\u00b9\u00b4\u00e7\u203a\u00ae\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e6\u201d\u00be\u00e8\u00aa\u00b2\u00e5\u00be\u0152<\/a> before.<\/p>\n

\"Comiket<\/a><\/p>\n

Their C75 release<\/a> information can be found on the blog. It’s basically a coloured illustration book, a monochrome ero-sketch book, and a mini poster.<\/p>\n

Heart Work<\/h3>\n

Day 2’s queuing was for Heart Work<\/strong>, Hiro Suzuhira<\/a>‘s one-person doujin publication. It is a compilation of her recent illustrations and sketches.<\/p>\n

\"Comiket<\/a>
\nHeart Work release for C75<\/p>\n

She is probably best known for her character designs in various Navel<\/a> games such as Shuffle!<\/strong> (Asa, Nerine, Sage) and Soul Link<\/strong>. She often collaborates with her good friend Aoi Nishimata<\/a>, whose doujin publication is called JOKER TYPE<\/a> and who designed the other half of the Shuffle! cast (the crappier half that includes Kaede).<\/p>\n

\"Comiket<\/a><\/p>\n

Incidentally, the illustrations found in the recently-desecrated<\/a> Akikan!<\/strong> novel series are among some of Hiro’s older works. They still look better<\/a> than the anime.<\/p>\n

\"Comiket<\/a>
\nHeart Work phone card<\/p>\n

Hiro is my hero(ine).<\/p>\n

T2 ART WORKS<\/h3>\n

The final day of Comiket brought T2 ART WORKS<\/strong>, the awesome release from Tony Taka<\/a>. His latest release<\/a> (NSFW) is Clannad-centric with a fulfilling dosage of Tomoyo<\/a>, hands down the best character in an otherwise overrated generic Key franchise. *Ducks for cover*<\/p>\n

\"Comiket<\/a>
\nTomoyo megane moe<\/em><\/p>\n

Tony is probably one of the most successful doujin artists and runs a rather commercialized operation. Personally, I don’t really care about the distinctions between indie and mainstream as long as the art\/song is good, but a direct result of Tony’s popularity is that his releases are more costly than most.<\/p>\n

\"Comiket<\/a>
\nBack and front covers of the doujinshi (NSFW but too late)<\/p>\n

He also sells his own product sets that change in design every Comiket but are generally the same things. I bought them last year<\/a> too.<\/p>\n

\"Comiket<\/a>
\nGoodie bag content<\/p>\n

In fact, these Comiket-exclusive goods are basically the only reason why you would want to queue for T2. The doujinshi itself is always available brand new from any Toranoana<\/a> outlet, albeit for 50 yen more due to tax. In fact, I picked up his C74 release (Macross F<\/a>) at the Akihabara branch. The goodie bags on the other hand can only be found in collector stores at jacked up prices after the event.<\/p>\n

Others<\/h3>\n

Those were my planned purchases. Now for the rest of the random splurges that are the natural consequences of wandering around the Comiket event halls filled with shiny stuff.<\/p>\n

\"Comiket<\/a>
\nBought for the cover art<\/p>\n

\"Comiket<\/a>
\nKyonko<\/p>\n

\"Comiket<\/a>
\nDoujin Little Busters! calendar<\/p>\n

\"Comiket<\/a>
\nRather nice art<\/p>\n

\"Comiket<\/a>
\nAlthough I’m not really a LB fan<\/p>\n

\"Comiket<\/a>
\nMy only purchases from the commercial booths<\/p>\n

\"Comiket<\/a>
\nAnd some other stuff I won’t go into details about… *cough*<\/p>\n

And finally, what might arguably be my most awesome Comiket purchase ever…<\/p>\n

\"Comiket<\/a>
\nIKINOKORITAI!!!<\/em><\/p>\n

P.S. I have multiple copies of T2 and Heart Work releases… (When you’ve already queued for 2 hours, you might as well.) I wonder what I should do with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Useless pieces of paper and plastic I’m finally back in Singapore. It’s really hot even in my air-conditioned room. Gah. But anyway, here’s my damage report for Comiket 75. I didn’t buy much. Really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,28],"tags":[781,302,173,787,786,51,788,708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}